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Manuel Alcala Kovalski
I have made interactive visualizations viewed by thousands of people, led data science trainings for 65+ staff, and written over 40 blog posts.
Education
B.A., Mathematical Economics (minor in Statistics)
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
2019 - 2017
- GPA: 3.5
- Economics Honors Thesis: “The Distributional Effects of Capital Account Liberalization: Evidence from a New Index”
B.A. candidate, Mathematics, Economics, and Political Science
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
2017 - 2015
- GPA: 3.9
- Completed 69 credits in four semesters
Research Experience
Senior Research Assistant
Washington, D.C.
The Brookings Institution - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Present - 2019
- Streamlined data collection by web scraping in R, automated data cleaning, modeled/analyzed data, and communicated results through public facing data visualisation
- Created an R package to facilitate data visualization consistent with the Brookings brand
- Building R shiny applications to communicate insights from macroeconomic data
Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Scholar
Leonard Davis Institute
University of Pennsylvania
2018 - 2018
- Independently analyzed and constructed statistical models for large data pertaining to healthcare costs
Publications
The relationships between marijuana use and exercise among young and middle-aged adults
Preventive Medicine
N/A
2021 - 2021
- Co-authored with Dr. Michael T. French and Dr. Karoline Mortensen
- Featured in U.S. News